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Political correctness accused him of almost everything, deciding to bring every new installment of it before destroying it because he is still respected both for his prestige and his competitive teson. Novels such as The Beauty of the Lilies (1996), Gertrude and Claudio (2000) or collections of short stories such as What's Left to Live (1994) proved to be worthy of such respect. We mean one of the golden ages of the Himalayan peaks of the American novel of the 20th century with Norman Mailer, Philip Roth or Sol Bellow. Part of the 1960s and 1970s belongs to him, considering that, in addition to those fellow travelers, Updike agreed with John Chiwer, Carson McCullers, Truman Capote, Flannery O'Connor, Ralph Ellison or Joyce Carol Oates. He was able to create among these black holes and supernovae the territory of his own, American white middle class, who controlled alcohol better than adultery, with a red button of birth control pills on the nightstand. Updike, who began to want to be a graphic artist, struggled and became what he thought needed the American narrative of his time: a writer as big as he was popular. Something like Mickey Mouse, Elvis Presley or TV. He drew with the clear, architectural and meticulous stroke of neighborhoods, living houses, rooms, toilets and bedrooms, divorces, disputes and truces, romance, sex and disloyal to his fellow citizens in a style as ruthless as it is beautiful. He nailed your scalpel with a clean cut that freed you from epic and final ordinances. His books are narcissistic, and past time pushes his perfectionism, too often, into a snob, but his reading continues to reveal something huge. They seem to be books written by a god who understands without judgment or intervention. It makes us look like ordinary creatures, but not stupid or banal, works death, which we try to avoid by enshrining ourselves in the eternity of the perfect moment at a cost - children, ruin, death - anything. All this in the gatopardo in the rescue editions of Marry Me, a novel published in 1977 that in Spain will publish defunc publishing house Noguer, with the same translator, but another translation. In it, Updike returns to his favorite territory: the marital problems of the American middle class, following his bestseller, Couples (1968), and in the midst of his foreshadowing series with the character harry Rabbit Angstrom (the tetralogy and posthumous closing book of Harry, which will make Updike continue to read and here there are stakes). The action takes place in 1962 in Greenwood, on the outskirts of Connecticut. Adult American Dream: beaches, dinners, children, cocktails at sunset, war games floors, own and other bedrooms. Jerry and Sally start an extramarital relationship that they want them led to their divorce and a new wedding. They do not know that their respective partners also have their own affairs. In five chapters, John Updike distributes gameplay. The cards are marked and vary in value depending on the conversations, symbols, tempo given in the five parts in which the novel is divided. The guilt arising from the obvious possibility of choice, the religious temple that adultery tempts him to destroy, to erect a new, already pagan, to the greatest glory without remaining dead in life. All this in this novel, in the style always, that third person who is, but the first con artist, and the impulsiveness of the person, a deep, eschatological view, as cruel as this compassion: he understands, forgives and condemns at the same time. In its trajectory, marry me skill, impeccable, yes, that works like a clock, but without capital breath. But this is nothing demerate in the case of Updike, because a little of it is almost too much for many others. And besides, like almost all of his books, whether it's novels or stories, there are some scenes that you end up taking with you. Like, for example, the one where Jerry and Sally, who lived an idyllic day on a plane ride from the beaches, a few hours that confirmed their decision to break their marriages and be together, arrive at the airport to return home and the storm makes foreseen that the return flight will be delayed. This will mean that the domestic reality, the dog until then obedient and trained will bite their hand. Bubble adultery fantasy bursts through the delayed plane. Finally, the wizard rescues them to condemn them: they will fly in time, each other's alibi will work and the match ball is saved. But, nevertheless, the light has changed and you have seen, you have seen, and the same is no longer usual. Yours, the last one now Dure, the term. Como en esas miradas de algunas peleculas de antonioni que lo dicen todo y es amargo y finale. 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John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 -January 27, 2009) was an American writer, poet, screenwriter, art historian, and literary critic. One of four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the other are Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike has published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen collections of short, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books throughout his career. Hundreds of his short stories, reviews and poems have appeared in The New Yorker since 1954. He also wrote regularly for The New York Review of Books. His most famous work is his Rabbit series (the novels Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Rich; Rabbit on Vacation; and The Rabbit's Tale remembered), which chronicles the life of middle-class 1er Harry Rabbit Angstrom for several decades, from young adulthood to death. Rabbit is rich (1982) on vacation (1990) were awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Describing his theme as an American small town, Protestant middle class, Updike was recognized for his meticulous craftsmanship, his unique prose style, and his prolific output - he wrote an average book a year. Updike inhabited his fiction with characters who often experience personal turmoil and must respond to crises related to religion, family responsibilities and adultery. His fiction is distinguished by attention to the cares, passions and sufferings of the average American, an emphasis on Christian theology and a concern for sexuality and sensual detail. His work attracted considerable attention and praise, and he is widely regarded as one of the great American writers of his time. Updike's high-profile prosaic style is distinguished by a rich, unusual, sometimes secret dictionary, which is conveyed through the eyes of a crooked, intelligent author's voice, who extravagantly describes the physical world, while remaining directly in a realistic tradition. He described his style as an attempt to give the worldly because of it its beautiful. Early living and education Boyhood at home in Shillington Updike was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, the only child of Linda Grace (nee Hoyer) and Wesley Russell Updike, and grew up in the nearby small town of Shillington. The family later moved to the unincorporated village of Plowville. His mother's attempts to become a writer impressed the young Updike. One of my earliest memories, he later recalled, is that I saw her at my desk... I admired the equipment writer, the typewriter eraser, the boxes of clean paper. And I remember the brown envelopes that the stories would go in and go back to. These early years in Burks County, Pennsylvania, influenced the environment of Rabbit Angstrom's tetralogy, as well as many of his early novels and short stories. Updike graduated from Shillington High School as a co-valedictorian and class president in 1950 and received a full scholarship to Harvard College, where he was Christopher Lache's neighbor during their first year. Updike had already gained recognition for writing as a teenager, winning the Scholastic Art and Writing Award, and at Harvard soon became known among his classmates as a talented and prolific member of Harvard Lampoon, of which he was president. He graduated with honors in 1954 with a degree in English and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After graduating from the University of Updike entered the Raskinsky School of Drawing and Fine Arts at Oxford University with ambitions to become a cartoonist. Returning to the United States, Updike and his family moved to New York, where he became a regular contributor to The New Yorker. This was the beginning of his professional writing career. Career The 1950s writer Updike remained at The New Yorker as a staff writer for just two years, writing a column talking about the city and presenting poems and stories to the magazine. Updike wrote poems and short stories that came to fill his early books as Carpenter Chicken (1958) and The Same Door (1959). These works were influenced by Updike's early interaction with The New Yorker. This early work was also influenced by J.D. Salinger (ASP); John Cheever (Snow in Greenwich Village); and modernists Marcel Proust, Henry Greene, James Joyce and Vladimir Nabokov. During this time, Updike experienced a deep spiritual crisis. Suffering from the loss of religious faith, he began to read Seren Kierkegaard and theologian Carl Barth. Both deeply influenced his own religious beliefs, which in turn were prominent in his fiction. Updike remained a devout Christian for the rest of his life. In the 1960s and 1970s, Updike and his family moved to Ipswich, Massachusetts. Many commentators, including a columnist for the local Ipswich Chronicle, claimed that the fictional town of Tarbox in pairs was based on Ipswich. Updike denied the suggestion in a letter to the newspaper. Impressions of Updike's day-to-day life in Ipswich in the 1960s and 1970s are included in a letter to the same newspaper published shortly after Updike's death and written by a friend and contemporary. In Ipswich, Updike wrote Rabbit, Run (1960) about the Guggenheim Scholarship and the Centaur (1963), two of his most famous and famous works; the latter won the National Book Award. Rabbit, Run featured Harry Rabbit Angstrom, a former high school basketball star and middle-class paragon who will become the most enduring and critically acclaimed updike character. Updike wrote three more novels about him. Rabbit, Run has been featured in the time of the all-time 100 greatest novels. Updike's short career and reputation stories were nurtured and extended by his long association with The New Yorker, who published him frequently throughout his career despite the fact that he left the magazine after just two years. Updike's memoir states that he stayed in his New England corner to give his inside news with a focus on the American Home from the perspective of a male writer. Updike's contract with the magazine gave him the right to the first sentence for his short manuscripts, but William Sean, editor of The New Yorker from 1952 to 1987, dismissed some of them as too explicit. The Maple stories, collected in Too Far to Go (1979), reflect the ebb and flow of Updike's first marriage; Separation (1974) and Here come maples (1976) are associated with his divorce. These stories also reflect the role of alcohol in 1970s America. They were the basis for a television film, also called Too Far to nbc broadcast in 1979. Updike's stories were collected in several volumes published by Alfred A. Knopf over five decades. In 2013, the Library of America released a two-volume edition of 186 stories titled Collected Stories. Novels In 1971, Updike published a sequel to the film Rabbit, Run called Rabbit Redux, his response to the 1960s; Rabbit reflects much of Updike's indignation and hostility towards the social and political changes that have surrounded the United States during this time. The early period of Updike in Olinger was established in Pennsylvania of his youth; it ended around 1965 with a lyrical farm. After his early novels, Updike became best known for his chronicle of infidelity, adultery and marital unrest, especially in suburban America; and for his contradictory portrayal of the confusion and freedom inherent in this disintegration of social vocation. He once wrote that it was a topic that, if I didn't exhaust myself, exhausted me. The most famous of Updike's novels of this vein is Couples (1968), a novel about adultery in a small fictional Massachusetts town called Tarbox. He got an Updike appearance on the cover of Time magazine with the headline Adult Society. Both the journal's article and, to a certain extent, the novel struck a chord with national concern about whether American society is abandoning all social standards of behavior in sexual matters. The Coup (1978), a vaunted novel about African dictatorship inspired by a visit to Africa, was found by Updike, working in a new territory. In the 1980s and 1980s, he published another novel starring Harry Angstrom, Rabbit Rich, who won the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - all three major American literary awards. Roman found Rabbit the fat and happy owner of a Toyota dealership. Updike found it hard to finish the book because he was so much fun in the imaginary Rabbit County and his family lived. In The Rabbit Is Rich, Updike published The Witches of Istwick (1984), a playful novel about witches living in Rhode Island. He described it as an attempt to do everything right with mine, what we would call them, feminist detractors. One of Updike's most popular novels, it was adapted as a film and included in the list of 20th century canonical literature by Harold Bloom (in Western Canon). In 2008, Updike published The Widows of Eastwick, a return to witches in old age. It was his last published novel. In 1986, he published the unconventional novel Version of Roger, the second volume of the so-called Scarlet Letter trilogy, about trying to prove the existence of God through a computer program. Author and critic Martin Amis called it almost a masterpiece. Roman S. (1989), uncharacteristically involving heroines, heroines, Updike will be reworked in Hawthorn's Scarlet Letter. Updike enjoyed working in TV series; In addition to Rabbit's novels and tales of maples, Updike's recurring alter ego is a moderately famous, untested Jewish writer and possible Nobel laureate Henry Bech, chronicling in three comic story cycles: Bech, The Book (1970), Bech Is Back (1981) and Bech at Bay: A 'u'a- Novel (1998). These stories were compiled as The Complete Henry Bech (2001) by The Everyman Library. Bech is a comical and shy antithesis of Updike's own literary person: a Jew, a World War II veteran, a recluse, and an unfeigned wine. In 1990, he published the last novel Rabbit, Rabbit on Vacation, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Over 500 pages, the novel is one of the most famous Updike. In 2000, Updike included the novella Rabbit remembered in his collection Of Love Licks, drawing the Rabbit saga to an end. His Pulitzers for the last two Rabbit novels make up updike one of four writers who have won two Pulitzer Prizes for fiction, the other William Faulkner, Booth Tarkington, and Colson Whitehead. In 1995, the Library of The Obivnik collected and canonized four novels as the omnibus Rabbit Angstrom; Updike wrote an introduction in which he described Rabbit as a ticket to America all around me. What I saw through The Rabbit's eyes was more worth saying than what I saw through my own, although the difference was often negligible. Updike later called Rabbit a brother to me and a good friend. He opened me up as a writer. After the publication of Rabbit Alone, Updike spent the remainder of the 1990s and early 2000s publishing novels in a variety of genres; the work of this period was often experimental in nature. These styles included the historical fiction Memories of the Ford Administration (1992), the magical realism of Brazil (1994), the science fiction By the End of Time (1997), the postmodernism of Gertrude and Claudius (2000) and the experimental fiction Look for My Face (2002). In the midst of these, he wrote what was for him a more conventional novel, The Beauty of Lilies (1996), a historical saga spanning several generations and exploring the themes of religion and cinema in America. It is considered the most successful novel of Updike's late career. Some critics predicted that descendants might consider the novel a late masterpiece, forgotten or glorified by rot in its time, only to be rediscovered by another generation, while others considered it too long and depressing. In the Villages (2004), Updike returned to the familiar territory of treason in New England. His 22nd novel, The Terrorist (2006), a story about a hot young Muslim extremist in New Jersey, attracted media attention but was highly critical. In 2003, Updike published a large collection of his short fiction, spanning the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s. More than 800 pages, with more than a hundred stories, it was named richly episodic and lyrical Bildungsroman ... in which Updike traces the trajectory of adolescence, college, married life, fatherhood, separation and divorce. In 2004, he received the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. This long volume, however, excluded several stories found in his storybooks of the same period. Updike worked in a variety of genres, including fiction, poetry (most of which is collected in Collected Poems: 1953-1993, 1993), essays (collected in nine separate volumes), a play (Buchanan Dying, 1974) and a memoir (Self-Consciousness, 1989). The Updike array of awards includes two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction, two national book awards, three National Book Critics Circle Awards, the 1989 National Medal of Arts, the 2003 National Humanities Medal, and the Rea Award for Short Storytelling for Outstanding Achievement. The National Endowment for the Humanities chose Updike to present jefferson's 2008 lecture, the U.S. government's highest award in the humanities; Updike's lecture was titled The Clarity of Things: What American Is About American Art. At the end of his life, Updike worked on a novel about St. Paul and early Christianity. After his death, The New Yorker published an assessment of Adam from Updike's lifelong relationship with the magazine, calling him one of the greatest of all modern writers, the first American writer since Henry James, a fully expressed man who broke the curse of incompleteness that haunted American writing. Updike married Mary E. Pennington, a student at Radcliffe College, in 1953, when he was still a Harvard student. She accompanied him to Oxford, England, where he attended art school and where their first child, Elizabeth, was born in 1955. The couple had three other children: writer David (born 1957), artist Michael (born 1959) and Miranda (born 1960). They divorced in 1974. Updike had seven grandchildren, Anov, Kwame, Wesley, Trevor, Kai, Soyer and Seneca. In 1977, Updike married Martha Ruggles Bernhard, with whom he lived for more than thirty years in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts. He died of lung cancer at a hospice in Danvers, Massachusetts, on January 27, 2009, at the age of 76. Poetry Updike has published eight volumes of poetry during his career, including his first book, The Chicken Carpenter (1958) and one of his last, posthumous The EndPoint (2009). The New Yorker published excerpts from Endpoint in its March 16, 2009 issue. Most of Updike's poetry was recalled in Knopf's Collected Poems (1993). He wrote that I started as light verse, and tried to bear in my earnest or lyrical verse something austerity austerity liveliness of lesser form. The poet Thomas M. Dish noted that because Updike was such a well-known writer, his poetry may be mistaken as a hobby or weakness; Disch saw Updike's light verse instead as a poetry of epigrammatic clarity. His poetry was praised for his participation in various forms and themes, for his wit and precision, and for depicting topics familiar to American readers. British poet Gavin Ewart praised Updike for the metaphysical quality of his poetry and for his ability to make the ordinary seem strange and called him one of the few contemporary writers capable of writing good poetry. Reading The End Point aloud, the critic Charles McGrath claimed that he had found different, deeper music in Updike's poetry, discovering that Updike's word play smoothed and deepened and had many subtle sound effects. John Keenan, who praised Endpoint's collection as beautiful and poignant, noted that the interaction of his poetry with the everyday world in a technically executed manner seems to be considered against him. Apdike's literary critic and artistic critics have also been a critic of literature and art, often referred to as one of the best American critics of his generation. In the introduction to Picked-Up Pieces, his 1975 collection of prose, he listed his personal rules for literary criticism: Updike delivered Jefferson's 2008 lecture. 1. Try to understand what the author wanted to do, and do not accuse him of not achieving what he did not try. 2. Give enough direct quotes - at least one extended excerpt from the prose book so that the review reader can form their own impression, can get their own taste. 3. Confirm your description of the book with a quote from the book, if only the phrase is long, and not based on fuzzy pr'cis. 4. Easy on the plot resume, and not to give the ending. 5. If the book is considered defective, let us give a successful example of the same example, both from The Author's Ive and elsewhere. Try to understand the failure. Are you sure it's his, not yours? To these specific five can be added a more vague sixth, dealing with maintaining chemical purity in the reaction between the product and the appraiser. Do not accept for viewing a book that you are predisposed to dislike, or committed friendships to love. Do not imagine yourself a custodian of any tradition, executor of any party standards, a warrior in any ideological battle, a corrections officer of any kind. Never, ever ... try to put the author in his place by making him a pawn in a competition with other reviewers. Browse the book, not the reputation. Obey any spells, weak or strong, are being cast. It is better to praise and share than to blame and forbid. Communication between the reviewer and his audience is based on the presumption of certain possible reading and all our discrimination should curve to this this He has reviewed almost every major writer of the 20th century and some 19th-century authors, usually the New Yorker, always trying to make his reviews animated. He also advocated for young writers, comparing them to their literary heroes, including Vladimir Nabokov and Marcel Proust. Good reviews from Updike have often been seen as a significant achievement in terms of literary reputation and even sales; some of his positive reviews have helped launch the careers of such young writers as Erica Jong, Thomas Mallon and Jonathan Safran Foer. Apdike's poor reviews have sometimes been controversial since he gave a cursed review of Toni Morrison's novel Mercy in late 2008. Updike was praised for his traditional simplicity and depth of literary criticism, for being a critic of aesthetics who saw literature on his own terms, and for his long-standing commitment to the practice of literary criticism. Much of Updike's art critique appeared in the New York Review of Books, where he often wrote about American art. Jefferson Updike's 2008 lecture Clarity of Things: What's American About American Art?, focuses on the uniqueness of American art from the 18th to the 20th century. In his lecture, he argued that American art, until the expressionist movement of the 20th century, in which America proclaimed its artistic independence, was characterized by uncertainty not found in the artistic tradition of Europe. According to Updike: Two centuries after Jonathan Edwards sought a connection with the divine in the beautiful clarity of things, William Carlos Williams wrote, presenting his long poem Paterson, that for a poet there are no ideas but in things. No ideas but things. The American artist, first born on the continent without museums and art schools, took nature as his only instructor, and things like his main study. Prejudice toward the empirical, to the evidentiary object in the numinous fullness of its being, leads to a certain lininess as the artist intently maps the visible in the New World, which feels surrounded by chaos and emptiness. Critical reputation and style He is certainly one of the great American writers of the 20th century. - Martin Amis is considered one of the greatest American science fiction writers of his generation. He was widely praised as the last true man of writing in America, with a huge and far-reaching influence on many writers. The superiority of his prosaic style is recognized even by critics who are skeptical of other aspects of Updike's work. Some scholars have drawn attention to the importance of the place, especially southeastern Pennsylvania, in Updike's life and work. Bob Batchelor described Updike's Pennsylvania sensibility as one with deep reaches that time and place, so in his writing, he used Pennsylvania as a symbol that transcended geographical or political boundaries. SA zilstra compared Pennsylvania Updike to Faulkner's Mississippi: As with Faulkner's novels in Mississippi, the world of Updike's fictional novels (as well as cities such as Olinger and Brewer), at the same time it is recognizable as a particular American region. Sanford Pinsker notes that Updike has always felt a little out of place in places like Ipswich, Massachusetts, where he has lived most of his life. In his heart, and more importantly, in his imagination, Updike remained a staunch Pennsylvania boy. Similarly, Sylvie Mate argues that The most memorable legacy of Updike seems to be his homage to Pennsylvania. Critics emphasize his unique style of prose and rich description and language, often favorably compared to Proust and Nabokov. Some critics consider the fluency of his prose a mistake, questioning the intellectual depth and thematic seriousness of his work, given the polishing of his language and the perceived ease of his themes, while others criticized Updike for misogynistic portrayals of women and sexual relations. Other critics argue that Updike's dense vocabulary and syntax functions as a method of distancing to mediate the intellectual and emotional participation of the reader. Overall, however, Updike is very well regarded as a writer who has mastered many genres, wrote with intellectual strength and powerful prose style, with a shrewd understanding of the sadness, frustrations and banality of American life. The character of Updike Rabbit Angstrom, the protagonist of the series of novels, is widely regarded as his magnum opus, said to have entered the pantheon of signal American literary figures, along with Huckleberry Finn, Jay Gatsby, Holden Caulfield and others. The 2002 Book magazine list of the 100 best fictional characters since 1900 is on the Rabbit list in the top five. Rabbit novels, Henry Leach's stories and Maples stories were canonized by the Custom Library. After Updike's death, the Houghton Library acquired his works, manuscripts and letters, calling the collection the John Updike Archive. In 2009, a group of scholars was also established dedicated to awakening and maintaining readers' interest in the literature and life of John Updike, promoting literature written by Updike, and encouraging and encouraging critical responses to Apdike's literary works. The Society will begin publishing The John Updike Review, a critical fellowship in Updike Research. The first biennial conference of the John Updike Society was held in 2010 at the University of Alvernia. In January 2009, British writer Ian McEwan wrote that Updike schemes and rather vanity touched the dots on Shakespeare, and that the death of Updike marked the end of the golden age of American romance in the second half of the 20th century. McEwan said The Rabbit series is Updike's masterpiece and will certainly be its monument, and concluded: Updike is a master of easy movement-between third and first person, from the metaphorical density of literary prose to the demo, from specific details to broad generalization, from actual to numinous, from scary to comic. For his specific purposes, Updike has come up with a storytelling style, an intense, real tense, loose indirect style that can jump up whenever he wants, to God's view of Harry, or the look of his wife Janice, or the stricken son of Nelson. This carefully thought-out trick allows here assumptions about evolutionary theory that are more Updike than Harry, and comically radical notions of Jewry that are more Harry than Updike. This is the basis for achieving tetralogy. Updike once said of The Rabbit's Books that they were an exercise in terms. It was usually self-deprecating, but contained an important grain of truth. Harry's education extends no further than in high school, and his opinion is even more limited by a number of prejudices and stubborn, fighting spirit, but he is a medium for half a million words of meditation on postwar American anxiety, failure and prosperity. The mode must be designed to make this possible, and this is due to pushing beyond realism. In a novel like this, Updike insisted, you should be generous and let your characters eloquence rather than chop them up to what you think is the right size. Jonathan Raban, emphasizing many of the virtues that were attributed to Apdike's prose, called Rabbit alone one of the very few modern novels in the English language... that can be set next to the work of Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Joyce, and do not feel the project ... It is a book that works on the constant accumulation of a mass of brilliant details, shades and nuances, the play between one sentence and another, and no brief overview can properly honor its complexity and richness. Writer Philip Roth, considered one of Updike's main literary rivals, wrote: John Updike is the greatest man of our time, as a brilliant literary critic and essayist, as he was a writer and writer - He is and always will be no less a national treasure than his 19th-century predecessor, Nathaniel Hawthorne. The well-known critic James Wood called Updike the prose of great beauty, but this prose is faced with the question of whether beauty is enough, and whether beauty always conveys everything that a writer has to convey. In a review of Licks of Love (2001), Wood concluded that Updike's prose overwhelms things very nicely but that in his work there is often a hard, rude, primitive, misogynistic worldview. Wood praised and criticized Updike's language for being an essayist truant; The tongue lifts itself into pretty hydraulics, and soars a little above its subjects, usually too accomplished and too abstract. Wood said Updike is able to write the perfect sentence and his style is characterized by a delicate delay in the sentence. On the beauty of Updike's language and his belief in the power of language that hovers over reality, Wood wrote: For some time, Updike's language seemed to encode almost theological optimism about his ability to invoke. Updike is noticeably unmodern in its impenetrability of silence and interruptions in the abyss. For all his legendary Protestantism, both American Puritan and Lutheran-Bartian, with its cold brilliance, his persistence in the painful divide between God and His beings, Updike seems less like Hawthorne than Balzac, in his inscorruptible and boundless energy, and his cheerful professional belief that stories can be continued; very form of Rabbit's books - here expanded another copy - suggests a continuation. Updike does not seem to believe that words ever fail us - gallant, beaten by the permanence of life, and part of the difficulties he faced at the end of his career is that he is not willing, verbally, to admit silence, failure, interruption, loss of faith, despair, and so on. Supremely, better than almost any other contemporary writer, he can always describe these feelings and states; but they are not inscribed in the language itself. Updike's language, for all that he gestures to the usual range of human frustration and collapse, testifies instead to its own supernatural success: to the belief that the world can always be brought out of its cloud and clear in a fair season. In contrast to Wood's assessment, Oxford critic Thomas Karshan argued that Updike is intensely intelligent, with a style that represents his manner of thought rather than just a set of exquisite curls. Karshan calls Updike the heir to the traditional role of an epic writer. According to Karshan, Updike's letter raises one voice, joins his cadence, and moves on to another, like The Rabbit himself, driving south through radio zones to his flight from his wife and child. Disagreeing with Wood's criticism of Updike's alleged over-stylization, Karshan rates Updike's language as convincingly naturalistic: Updike's suggestions at their frequent best form are not a smug expression of faith. Rather, like Proust's sentences in Updike's description, they seek an essence so beautiful that the search itself is an act of faith. Updike tends to this sense of self-quukation, a kind of timid reverence for what exists, that shows when he fights for the shape and shade of the fruit through the mist of delicate blows. Their hesitation and self-criticalization arise as they face obstacles, rebuild and pass on. If life is offended in New England, it is also evasive and easy to miss. In the stories Updike says, marriages and houses are made only to be broken. His narrative embodies the disorderly love of the world. But love is unstable, Updike always says, as she thrives on obstacles and makes them if he can't find them. Harold Bloom once called Updike a minor writer with great style. Pretty beautiful and very significant stylist... He specializes in lighter pleasures. Bloom also edited an important collection of critical essays on Updike in 1987, in which he concluded that Updike possessed a basic style and was capable of writing beautiful sentences that were beyond praise; However, Bloom continued: The American sublime will never touch its pages. On The Dick Cavett Show in 1981, writer and short writer John Chiever was asked why he didn't write book reviews and what he would say if he was given the chance to review Rabbit Rich. He said: The reason I didn't review the book is because it might have taken me three weeks. I appreciate this something that is diverse and complex ... John is perhaps the only contemporary writer I know now who gives me the feeling that life is the life we do is in an environment that enjoys the greatness that eludes us. Rabbit is very obsessed with a lost paradise, a paradise known fleetingly, perhaps through erotic love and paradise, which he pursues through his children. It's the expanse of John's sphere that I would describe if I could review. Fantastic Circus, an online and multimedia literary magazine, named Updike one of the four great American writers of his time, along with Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy and Dok Delillo, each of whom jokingly presented himself as a sign of the zodiac. In addition, Updike was seen as the best writer in the world, as nabokov before him. But unlike many literature and establishment obituaries, Cirque argued that no one thought of Updike as a vital writer. Adam of The New Yorker praised Updike as the first American writer since Henry James, who fully put it, the man who broke the curse of incompleteness that haunted American writing... He sang like Henry James, but he saw Sinclair Lewis. Both sides of American fiction - an accurate, realistic, encyclopedic appetite to get it all, and an exquisite desire to make a record of the sensations rendered for sure - both were alive in it. Critic James Walcott, in a review of Updike's latest novel, The Widows of Isthwick (2008), noted that Updike to observe surveillance Decline combined with the affirmation of America's ultimate merit: Updike elegises entropy American style with resigned, paternal, frustrated love that distinguishes his fiction from the grim detractors: Don DeLillo, Gore Vidal, Philip Roth. America may have lost its appearance and growth, but it was beauty once, and worth every golden smear of sperm. Gore Vidal, in a controversial essay in the Literary Supplement Times, said he never took Updike seriously as a writer. He criticizes his political and aesthetic worldview for his softness and acceptance of power in any form. He concludes that Updike does not describe the purpose. Referring to Apdaik's widespread acceptance, Vidal mockingly called him our good kid and ridiculed his supposed political conservatism. Vidal eventually came to the conclusion: Updike's work is increasingly representative, that polarization in a state where power is becoming more brutal and malignant while its hired hands in the media grow increasingly excited as the sacred war of the few against many heats up. Robert B. Silvers, editor of The New York Review of Books, called Updike one of the most elegant and cold-bloodedly observant writers of his generation. Writer Lorry Moore, who once described Updike as the greatest writer of American literature... and perhaps our greatest writer, he reviewed Updike's body of stories in The New York Review, praising their intricate details and rich images: His eye and his prose never falter, even when the world cannot send its more socially complex revelations directly along the path of its history. In a post dedicated to his birthday in 2011, blogger and literary critic Christy Potter called Updike ... The writer, the kind of writer everyone has heard, is the one whose name you can bring up at a party, and people who have never read one thing he wrote will still nod his head consciously and say: Oh yes, John Updike. Writer. In November 2008, the editors of the British literary review magazine awarded Updike their Bad Sex in Fiction Lifetime Achievement Award, which celebrates rough, tasteless or funny sexual passages in modern literature. Topics Are All the happiest country in the world. Rabbit Angstrom. A caricature of John Updike from The New York Review of Books by David Levine, who painted Updike several times. The main themes in Updike's work are religion, gender and America, as well as death. Often he united them, often in his favorite area of American small town, Protestant middle class, of which he once said, I like the middle. It is in the middle of that extreme clash where ambiguity restlessly rules. For example, the decline of religion in America is described in the Beauty of Lilies along with The movie, and Rabbit Angstrom contemplates the virtues of having sex with the wife of his friend the Reverend Jack Eccles while the latter gives his sermon in Rabbit, Run (1960). Critics have often pointed out that Updike imbued the language himself with some faith in its effectiveness, and that its tendency to build narratives spanning many years and book-rabbit series, The Henry Bech series, Eastwick, Maples story- demonstrates a similar belief in the transcendent power of fiction and language. Updike's novels often act as a dialectical theological debate between the book itself and the reader, a novel endowed with theological beliefs designed to challenge the reader as the plot goes its course. Rabbit Angstrom himself acts as a Kierkegaard knight of faith. Describing his purpose in writing prose, Updike himself, in the introduction to his early stories: 1953-1975 (2004), wrote that his goal was always to give the mundane his beautiful due. Elsewhere, he famously said, When I write, I'm not aiming for New York, but for a vague place east of Kansas. Some have suggested that the best affirmation of Updike's aesthetics comes from his early memoir, Dogwood Tree (1962): Blankness is not emptiness; we can ride on the intense aurora we do not see because we do not see anything else. And actually there is a color, quiet but tireless goodness that things alone, like a brick wall or a small stone, seem to confirm . Sex sex in updike's work is published by his ubiquity and awe, with which he described it: his contemporaries invade the earth with wild Dionysian squeals, mocking both the taboos that make him forbidden, and the lust that pushes men to him. Updike can be honest about it, and its descriptions of the sight, taste and texture of the female body can be perfect little madrigals. Critic Edward Champion notes that Updike's prose is largely conducive to external sexual images replete with explicit anatomical details rather than descriptions of internal emotions in descriptions of sex. In an interview with Champion Updike on the Bat Segundo show, Updike replied that he may have advocated for such images to flesh out and make sex real in his prose. Another sexual theme commonly found in Updike is adultery, especially in the suburban middle-class environment best known in Couples (1968). Updikean the narrator is often the man guilty of infidelity and abandoning his family. Similarly, Updike wrote about America with a certain nostalgia, reverence, recognition, and celebration of America's wide diversity. Packer wrote that in Updike, there seemed to be a strange ability to harken as America Beautiful as well as America's Plain Jane, and a wonderful Protestant spine in his fiction and essay, when he decided to show it, was progressive and enlightened as it is Implacable. Rabbit's novels, in particular, can be seen, in the words of Julian Barnes, as a distraction from and a sparkling confirmation of the vast noisy routine of American life. But when Updike celebrated ordinary America, he also referred to its decline: at times he was so clearly dismayed by America's downward rotation. Adam concludes that The great theme of Updike was the American attempt to fill the gap left by faith, by the materials produced by mass culture. He documented how the death of a credible religious belief was offset by sex and adultery, as well as films and sports, as well as family love and family responsibilities. For Updike, these efforts have been blessed, and almost successful. Updike's novels about America almost always contain references to the political events of the time. In this sense, they are artifacts of their historical era, showing how national leaders shape and define their time. On this broader background, the lives of ordinary citizens take place. Death Updike has often written about death, his characters provide a mosaic of reactions to mortality ranging from terror to attempts at isolation. At the Fair in the Poor House (1959) elderly John Hook Ins: There is no good without faith... And if you did not believe, at the end of your life you should know that you buried your talent in the land of this world and saved nothing to take in the next , demonstrating the religious, metaphysical faith present in much of Updike's work. For Rabbit Angstrom, with his constant reflections on mortality, his near-death testimony of his daughter, and his often shaky faith, death is more frightening and less obvious in its aftermath. At the end of Rabbit on Vacation (1990), however, Rabbit demonstrates a kind of confidence by telling his son Nelson on his deathbed, ... But that's enough. Can. Stop it. In Centaur (1963) George Caldwell has no religious faith and is afraid of cancer. Death can also be a kind of invisible terror; it happens behind the scenes, but is reflected in the survivors as an absent presence. Updike himself also experienced a crisis in the afterlife, and in fact many of his characters shared the same existential fears that the author admitted he suffered in his youth: Henry Beh's concern that he was dust doomed to know it was dust stains, or Colonel Ellello's cry that we will be forgotten, we all forget. Their fear of death threatens to make everything they feel meaningless, and he also sends them to run after God, seeking some reassurance that there is something beyond the familiar, everyday world with its cues and buildings and cars and bricks. Updike demonstrated his fear in some of his more personal works, including the poem Perfection WasTed (1990): And another unfortunate thing about is the termination of your own brand of magic ... In popular culture, Updike was featured on the cover of Time twice, on April 26, 1968, and again on October 18, 1982. Updike was the subject of Nicholson Baker's closed book examination entitled You and I (1991). Baker discusses his desire to meet Updike and become his golfing partner. In 2000, Updike appeared in Simpsons' Insane Clown Poppy at the Book Festival. The main character portrayed by Eminem in the film 8 Mile (2002) nicknamed The Rabbit and bears some resemblance to Rabbit Angstrom. The soundtrack for the film features a song called Rabbit Run. Apdike's portraits, painted by American cartoonist David Levin, appeared several times in the New York Review of Books. Main article of the bibliography: John Updike's bibliography Additional information: External Links section for references to archives of his essays and reviews in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. Rabbit novels Rabbit, Run (1960) Rabbit Redux (1971) Rabbit Rich (1981) Rabbit in Peace (1990) Rabbit Angstrom: Four Novels (1995) Rabbit Remembered (a story in the collection of Lix love) (2001) Bech book Bech, Book (1970) Bech Back (1982) Bech at the Bay (1998) Full Henry Bech (2001) Buchanan Books Buchanan Dying (Play) (1974) Memories of the Ford Administration (Novel) (1992) Eastwick Books Witch Eastwick (1984) Widows Eastwick (2008) Scarlet Letter Trilogy Sunday Month (1975) Roger's Version (1986) S. (1988) Other novels Poor House Fair (1959) Centaur (1963) Farm (1965) Couples (1968) Marry Me (1977) Coup (1978) Brazil (1994) In the beauty of lilies (1994 1996) Towards the end of time (1997) Gertrude and Claudius (2000) Look for My Face (2002) Villages (2004) Terrorist (2006) Books edited by Updike Best American Short Stories (1984) Binghamton Poems (2009) Short History Collections Of The Same Door (1959) Dove Feathers (1962) Olinger Stories (Choice) (1964) Music School (1966) Museums and Women (1972) Problems and Other Stories (1979) Too Far to Go (Maples Stories) (1979) Your Lover Just Called (1980) Believe Me (1987) The Afterlife (1994) Best American Short History of the Century (Editor) (2000) Love Leagues (2001) Early Stories: 1953-1 975 (2003) Three Trips (2003) Tears of My Father and Other Stories (2009) Maple Stories (2009) Collected Stories , Volume 1: Collected Early Stories (2013) Collected Stories, Volume 2: Collected Later Stories (2013) Poetry Carpenter Chicken (1958) Telephone Poles (1963) Midpoint (1969) Solid Dance (1969) Cunts : After Receiving Swingers Life Club Membership Request (limited edition) (limited edition) (1969)1974) Sucking and Turning (1977) Facing Nature (1985) Collected Poems 1953-1993 (1993) Americana and other poems (2001) The end point and other verses (2009) Non-fiction . and The Assorted Prose Critic (1965) Took-Up Pieces (1975) Hugging The Shore (1983) Self-Awareness: Memories (1989) Just Looking: Essays on Art (1989) Odd Jobs (1 Golf Dreams: Letters to Golf (1996) More Matter (1999)9) Still Looking: Essays on American Art (2005) In Love with Wanton: Essays on Golf (2005 ) Due to considerations: Essays and Criticism (2007) Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu: John Updike on Ted Williams (Library of America) (2010) Higher Gossip (2011) Always Looking: Essays on Art (20 Awards 1959 Guggenheim Fellow 1959 National Institute of Arts and Literature Rosenthal Prize 1964 National Book Award for Fiction 15 1965 Prix du Meilleur Livre 1966 O. Henry Award 1981 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction 1981 Edward McDowell Medal 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1982 National Book Award for Fiction (hardcover) 1982 Union League Club Abraham Lincoln Award 1983 National Book Critic Circle Award for Criticism 1984 National Club of Arts Medal Of Honor 1987 St. Louis Literary Award from St. Louis University Library Associates 101 102 1987 Ambassador Book Award 1987 Peggy W. Helmerich Distinguished Author of the 1988 PEN/Malamud Award 1989 National Medal of Arts 1990 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1991 O. Henry Award 1992 Honorary Doctor of Literature from Harvard University 1995 William Dean Howells Medal 1995 Commander de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 1997 Ambassador Book Award 1998 Harvard Medal of Arts 103 1998 Medal for Outstanding Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation Award for Achievement in American Literature 2003 National Medal of Humanities 2004 PEN/ Faulkner Prize for Fiction 2005 Man Booker International Prize Nominee 2005 2006 Rea Award for Short History 2007 American Academy of Arts and Literature Gold Medal for Fiction 2008 Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Lifetime Achievement Award 2008 Jefferson Lecture Notes - It was a reward for hardcover fiction. From 1980 to 1983, there were double awards for hardcover and paperback books in many categories in the history of the National Book Award. Most of the awardees in paperback have been reissued, including 1982 Fiction. Links to John Updike. Front row. October 31, 2008. BBC Radio 4. Received on January 18, 2014. John Updike, Encarta, MSN, 2008, received on October 31, 2009. a b Schiff, James (autumn 2001). John Updike's Rabbit Tetralogy: Mastered Irony in Motion. Christianity and literature (review). Archive from the original on April 6, 2009. Received 9 2008. a b c d e f John Updike Criticism, ENotes, Contemporary Literary Critic, 139, 2001. b Updike, John (2004), Early Stories: 1953-1975, Ballantine Books. John Updike Biography and Interview. www.achievement.org the American Academy of Achievement. Andrea Barrett (January) (January) 1990). The New York Times. Received on May 7, 2010. - b c d e f h i j k l m Boswell, Marshall. John Updike, Literary Encyclopedia, March 18, 2004 - Lash, Christopher. Simple Style: A Guide to Writing English. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002, page 6. - Scholastic Inc. Art - Writing Awards, Alumni, - Heer, Jeet (March 20, 2004), John Updike's Animated Ambitions, The Guardian. John Updike, Religion and Ethics News Weekly, PBS (812), November 19, 2004. - Chronicle of Ipswich. April 25, 1968. Letter: Updike flatly denies that Tarbox is Ipswich. The Ipswich Chronicle. February 9, 2009. Archive from the original dated November 11, 2012. a b National Book Award - 1964. National Book Fund. Received on March 11, 2012. (With the acceptance of Updike's speech and Harold Augenbraum's essay from the 60th Anniversary Blog Awards.) All-time 100 Romanov and Gross, Terry (2004). Be square. All I did was ask: Conversations with writers, actors, musicians and artists (p. 24). New York, NY: Hyperion. Louis Menand (November 24, 2003). True story. A New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Received on January 24, 2018. William Sean. A New Yorker. John Updike. A New Yorker. Donahue, Peter. Drinking and getting drunk: The social and personal consequences of drinking in John Updike are too far to go. Research in Short Fiction 33.3 (1996): (p. 362). Ebscohost. Web. March 22, 2017 - . Received March 14, 2017 - b Charlie Rose Archived August 5, 2009, at The Wayback Machine Interview, October 24, 1995 - Goodbye, King John Ofubord, New Statesman, January 29, 2009 John Thompson (en) New York Book Review and b National Book Award - 1982. National Book Fund. Received on March 11, 2012. (With an essay by Amiti Gage and Nancy Werlin from the 60th Anniversary Blog.) Michiko Kakutani, Books of the Times: Widows of Eastwick, The New York Times, October 19, 2008 - Harold Bloom, Western Canon: Books and Schools of The Ages (1994), Chaotic Age: United States, Riverhead Torg. Martin Amis, When Amis Met Updike ..., The Guardian, February 1, 2009 - Jack De Bellis (2000), John Updike (2000), Beh, Henry, 52-53. John Updike, Introduction, Rabbit Angstrom (1995), Obikman Library. - Charlie Rose interview on YouTube, 1996 - b c Adam, Postscript: John Updike, The New Yorker, February 9, 2009 - winners of the award - PEN/Faulkner Prize for Fiction, released April 12, 2009, in Wayback Machine. Books by Powell, Powells.com and b Howard, Jennifer (May 23, 2008). At the Jefferson Lecture, Updike says American art is known for its insecurities. Chronicle Education. b Tolson, Jay (May 23, 2008). John Updike on American art. U.S. News and World Report. Archive from the original on February 2, 2009. The roots and evolution of The Harvard Newspaper's Updike are Ancestry.com. Social Security Mortality Index (online database). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2010. Source data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Mortality Index. Social Security Administration. American writer Updike dies of cancer. BBC News. January 27, 2009. Received on January 28, 2009. a b John Updike: Poetry Foundation, No Poets.org Library: John Updike and Gavin Ewart, Making It Strange, New York Times, April 28, 1985 - Charles McGrath, Reading The Last Words of Updike, Aloud, New York Times, April 3, 2009 - John Keenan, The Clarity of Updike's Poetry Shouldn't Hide His Class, The Guardian, March 12, 2009 - James Atlas, To The Transhuman, London Book Review, February 2, 1984 - Remembering Apdike: The Gospel of John, The New Yorker Online - b Mary Rourke, John Updike Dies in 76; Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Los Angeles Times, January 28, 2009 - Packer, Remembering Updike, The New Yorker Online and b Charles McGrath, John Updike Mighty Feather, The New York Times, January 31, 2009 - Alex Carnevale, Literary Feud: Tony Morrison is John Updike's Last Lit-Fit Victim, October 2008, October 2008 Gawker.com - Updike Takes Swipes at Toni Morrison, First Post, October 29, 2008 - John Updike, Dreamy Wilderness, The New Yorker, November 3, 2008 - b Wyatt Mason, Among Reviewers: John Updike and book-review bugaboo, Harper, December 2007 - John Updike. New York Review of Books. New York Review of Books. Received on January 30, 2010. b John Updike, Clarity of Things, The National Endowment for the Humanities and Martin Amis, He took the novel on another plane of intimacy, The Guardian, January 28, 2009 - What is the best work of American fiction in the last 25 years? The New York Times, May 21, 2006, several hundred famous writers, critics, editors and other literary sages have listed the Rabbit series as one of the few greatest works of modern American fiction. a b c Thomas Karshan, Batsy, London Review of Books, 31 March 2005 - Batchelor, Bob (April 23, 2013). John Updike: Critical biography. Oxford: Prager. page 44. ISBN 9780313384042. Silstra, SA (1973). John Updike and the parabolic nature of the world. Sensing. 53 (3): 323–337. JSTOR 41177889. Pinkser, Sanford (2009). John Updike, Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom and I. Sewany Review. 117 (3): 492–494. doi:10.1353/sew.0.0156. Mate, Sylvie (2010). In memory of John Updike (1932-2009): This is the Pennsylvania thing. Transatlantic (2). a b c Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, John Updike, middle-class lyrical writer, dies aged 76, The New York January 28, 2009 - Book magazine, magazine, 2002, 100 Best Fictional Characters Since 1900, via NPR - Every Man's Library: Authors, Random House and Tracy Yang, Harvard Buys Updike Archive, Boston Globe, October 7, 2009 - John Updike Society Home. The John Updike Society. Received on December 9, 2009. John Updike Society's first biennial conference. Archive May 28, 2010, at Wayback Machine Alvernia University. Received on December 9, 2009. Ian McEwan, At John Updike, New York Book Review Volume 56 No 4, March 12, 2009 - Jonathan Raban, Oxford Book of the Sea (1993), Oxford University Publishing House, 509-517. John Updike: 2008 Jefferson Lecture Archive February 1, 2009 at Wayback Machine, National Endowment for the Humanities and James Wood, Broken Real Estate: Essays on Literature and Faith (2000), The Smug God of John Updike, Modern Library, 192. a b James Wood, Gossip in Gilt, London Review of Books, April 19, 2001 - Richard Eder, Paris Interviews, The New York Times, December 25, 2007 Harold Bloom, Ed., Contemporary Critical Views of John Updike, Introduction, Chelsea House, New York, 1987. Dick Cavett, Writers Of the Block: When Updike and Cheever came to visit, The New York Times, February 13, 2009. Video October 14, 1981 - S. Future, Updike, The Fiction Circus, January 27, 2009 - James Walcott, Caretaker/Pallbearer, London Review of Books, January 1, 2009 - Gore Vidal, Rabbit's Own Hole, Times Literary Supplement, April 26, 1996 - Brand, Madeleine. Robert B. Silvers interview for NPR Memories: John Updike: A Shy Man and a Great Writer. NPR, Day by Day, January 27, 2009 - Lorrie Moore, Home Truths, New York Review of Books, November 20, 2003 - Potter, Christie'. Unravelling John Updike's Mysterious Call. 2011 - John Updike, Rabbit alone (1990), Knopf, page 308 - Economist, American Subversion, January 29, 2009 - b d Jack De Bellis (286), Mortality and Immortality, Encyclopedia of John Updike (2000), p. 286. See here for many follow-up quotes and quotes about death. Robert McCrun, John Updike was the generation that changed the literary landscape irrevocably, The Guardian, February 1, 2009 - John Updike, Dog Tree, Assorted Prose (1965), Knopf. Time, View from the Catacombs, April 26, 1968, page 6 - b Show Beth Segundo, Shaw #50, John Updike and Antonia Nelson, Remembering Updike, The New Yorker Online - Packer, Remembering Updike, The New Yorker Online - Julian Barnes, Remembering Updike, The New Yorker Online - Jack De Bellis (ed.), More Mother, Encyclopedia John Apdyk Kakutani, Michiko (January 27, 2009), Score: The Relentless Updike Mapped America's Mysteries, The New York Times. Updike, John (1995), Perfection wasted, Collected Poems: 1953-1993, Knopf. April 26, 1968 Time cover Archived 28, 2009, at Wayback Machine, October 18, 1982 Time Coverage Archive September 6, 2008, by Wayback Machines and Nicholson Baker, You and I: The True Story, The Random House, 1991, Google Books and ECHO Journal IV/2, Kajikawa, Review: 8 Miles, Rabbit, Rap, David Levin Gallery. New York Review of Books. New York Review of Books. Received on January 30, 2010. All awards listed in the Centaurian Archive on February 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine Updike homepage, awards, prizes and honors, March 17, 2009 - Website of the St. Louis Literary Award - St. Louis University Library Associates. Recipients of the St. Louis Literary Prize. Archive from the original dated July 31, 2016. Received on July 25, 2016. History of the Harvard Medal of Arts. Harvard University's Office of the Arts. Outstanding contribution to American writing. National Book Fund. Received on March 11, 2012. (With Updike speech and introduction by Paul LeClerc.) Further reading and literary criticism bailey, Peter J., Rabbit (Un)Redeemed: The Drama of Faith in The Fiction by John Updike, Farley Dickinson University Press, Madison, New Jersey, 2006. Baker, Nicholson, U and I: True Story, Random House, New York, 1991. Batchelor, Bob, John Updike: Critical Biography, Prager, California, 2013. ISBN 978-0-31338403-5. Begley, Adam, Updike, Harper-Collins Publishers, New York, NY, 2014. Ben Hassat, Hedda, Prophets Without Vision: Subjectivity and Sacred in Contemporary American Writing, Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 2000. Bloom, Harold, Ed., John Updike's Contemporary Critical Views, Chelsea House, New York, 1987. Boswell, Marshall, John Updike's Rabbit Tetralogy: Mastered The Irony in Motion, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri, 2001. Broer, Lawrence, Rabbit Tales: Poetry and Politics in John Updike's Rabbit Novels, University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2000. Burchard, Rachel K., John Updike: Yes, University of Southern Illinois Press Office, Carbondale, Illinois, 1971. Campbell, Jeff H., Updike Novels: Thorns Spell Word, Midwestern State University Press, Wichita Falls, Texas, 1988. Clark Taylor, C., John Updike: Bibliography, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, 1968. De Bellis, Jack, John Updike: Bibliography, 1968-1993, Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, Connecticut, 1994. De Bellis, Jack, John Updike: Critical Responses to the Rabbit Saga, Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, Connecticut, 2005. De Bellis, Jack, Ed., John Updike Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press, Santa Barbara, California, 2001. Detwiler, Robert, John Updike, Twain, Boston, 1984. Greiner, Donald, Don DeLillo, John Updike, and the supporting power of myth, UnderWords: Perspectives on the Underworld by Don DeLillo, University of Delaware Press, Newark, Delaware, 2002. Greiner, Donald, john Updike novels, University Press, Athens, Ohio, 1984. Greiner, Donald, Other John Updike: Poems, Short Stories, Prose, Game, Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio, 1981. Gullette, Margaret Morganroth, John Updike: Rabbit Angstrom Grows Up, Safely at The Late Late In Middle Ages : Invention of the Progress Novel Midlife, Backinprint.com, New York, 2001. Hamilton, Alice and Kenneth, Elements of John Updike, William B. Erdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1970. Hunt, George W., John Updike and three great secret things: sex, religion and art, William B. Erdmans Pub Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1985. Karshan, Thomas, Batsy, London Book Review, March 31, 2005. Luscher, Robert M., John Updike: Exploring Short Fiction, Twayne, New York, 1993. Mazzeno, Lawrence W. and Sue Norton, eds., European Prospects at John Updike, Camden House, 2018. McNaughton, William R., ed., Critical Essays about John Updike, GK Hall, Boston, 1982. Markle, Joyce B., Fighters and Lovers: Topics in The Novels of John Updike, New York University Press, 1973. Mate, Sylvie, John Updike : La nostalgie de l'Mexico, Berlin, 2002. Miller, D. quentin, John Updike and the Cold War: Drawing the Iron Curtain, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri, 2001. Morley, Katherine, Bard Everyday Home Life: John Updike's Song for America, In Search of an Epic in Contemporary American Literature, Routledge, New York, 2008. Newman, Judy, John Updike, Macmillan, London, 1988. O'Connell, Mary, Updike and The Patriarchal Dilemma: Masculinity in Rabbit Novels, University of Southern Illinois Press Office, Carbondale, Illinois, 1996. Ulster, Stanley, Cambridge companion John Updike, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006. Plath, James, Ed., Conversations with John Updike, University of Mississippi Press, Jackson, Mississippi, 1994. Porter, M. Gilbert, John Updike 'ASP': Institution and Emerson cashier, English journal 61 (8), page 1155-1158, November 1972. Pritchard, William, Updike: Man letter America, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, Massachusetts, 2005. Ristoff, Dilvo I., John Updike's Rabbit at Rest: The Appropriation of History, by Peter Lang, New York, 1998. Roif, Ann, For rabbit, with love and squalor, Free Press, Washington, D.C., 2000. Searles, George J., Fiction by Philip Roth and John Updike, South Illinois University Press, Carbondale, Ill., 1984. Schiff, James A., Apdike Version: Rewriting the Scarlet Letter, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri, 1992. Schiff, James A., Author of the US series: John Updike Again, Twayne Publishers, Woodbridge, Connecticut, 1998. Tallent, Elizabeth, married men and magic tricks: Erotic Heroes by John Updike, Creative Arts Book Company, Berkeley, California, 1982. Tanner, Tony, Compromise Wednesday, City of Words: American Fiction, Jonathan Cape, London, 1971. Thorburn, David and Ayland, Howard, Ed., John Updike: Collection of Critical Essays, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1979. Trachtenberg, Stanley, ed., New Essays on Rabbit, Running, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993. Uphouse, Suzanne H., John Updike, Ungar, New York, 1980. Vidal, Gore, Rabbit's own burrow, Times Literary Supplement, April 26, 1996. Wallace, David Foster, John Updike, champion of the Literary Fallocrat, Drops One, New York Observer, October 12, 1997. Wood, James, Gossip in Gilding, London Book Review, April 19, 2001. James Wood, John Updike,s smug God John Updike, The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Faith, Modern Library, New York, 2000. Yerkes, James, John Updike and Religion: Sense of the Sacred and The Movement of Grace, by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, Grand Rapids, Missouri, 1999. External links biographical portal Wikiquote has quotes related to: John Updike Commons has media related to John Updike. 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